You only have to look at black tie as it is often worn on the red carpet these days to see that ... wrong with a black tux, a white dress shirt, a cummerbund, a bow tie, and all the other fixings.

and has figured prominently on the red carpet in recent years. Plus it's got that very black-tie-appropriate James Bond vibe. Tuxedo shirts (or formal or dinner shirts) have come a long way from ...

Women: Fortunately, I speak cocktail fluently. Black tie is a martini, formal is a dirty martini, and cocktail is a spicy ...

This mauve tie, for instance, complements the light-pink shirt because both have red in them ... to take color out of the equation altogether. Black-and-white dots set against black-and-white ...

January GQ cover star and The Crown’s leading man Matt Smith opted for traditional black tie with a white shirt, but with a ... All black red carpet looks are much more striking on women given ...

And then they started disappearing on the red ... "black tie" may not always mean the color black, it’s virtually impossible for any guy to mess up the timeless tudo: Black suit, white shirt ...

A short-sleeved shirt, with buttons or without, is resolutely casualwear, for hot weather only. Dress it up with a tie and you are either a science-teacher in a 1950s educational film or the most ...

There is a precedent, however, for wearing a tie with a short-sleeve shirt—that’s the old NASA-control-room look. It goes best with thin black pants, a crew cut, a pencil pack, and a shout of ...

Here are three style solutions for what to wear instead. Wear a solid black suit, tie and shoes with a white dress shirt. Keep all the elements on the dressier side. Skip shirts with button down ...